Literature

This is a seed of the forthcoming comprehensive bibliography.

Books

• Alexander C. The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe. Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, 2001.
• Arnheim R. The dynamics of architectural form. University of California Press, 1977.
• Gehl J. Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space. Island Press, 2011.
• Groh JM. Making space: how the brain knows where things are. Harvard University Press, 2014.
• Jacobs J. The death and life of great American cities. Random House, 1961.
• Longo G. A guide to great American public places: A journey of discovery, learning and delight in the public realm. Institute for Environmental Action, 1997.
• Lynch K. The image of the city. MIT Press, 1960.
• Mallgrave HF. The architect’s brain: Neuroscience, creativity, and architecture. John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
• Massengale J, Dover V. Street design: The secret to great cities and towns. John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
• Montgomery C. Happy city: transforming our lives through urban design. Macmillan, 2013.
• Robinson S, Pallasmaa J. Mind in architecture: Neuroscience, embodiment, and the future of design. MIT Press, 2015.
• Scruton R. Beauty: A very short introduction. Oxford University Press, 2011.
• Sussman A, Hollander JB. Cognitive architecture: Designing for how we respond to the built environment. Routledge, 2014.
• Whyte WH, Social life of small urban spaces. Project for Public Spaces, New York, NY, 1980.

Articles

Analysis & criticism

• Alexander C. The Alexander-Eisenman debate of 17 November 1982. “Patterns” Digital Library, 1982.
• Alexander C. Some sober reflections on the nature of architecture in our time. Katarxis, 2004.
• Buday R. The confused and impoverished state of architectural research. Common Edge, 2017.
• Daly J et al. Measuring human experiences of public spaces: A methodology in the making. Conscious Cities, 2016.
• Eck J. Enduring principles of art that also apply to architecture. Common Edge, 2017.
• Grabar H. Getting emotional about urban planning. Next City, 2016.
• Hewitt M. Review of Robinson Sarah and Juhani Pallasmaa, eds., Mind in architecture: Neuroscience, embodiment, and the future of design. To appear on caa.reviews, 2017.
• Kirk M. How to support mental health through urban planning. City Lab, 2016.
• Mehaffy M, Salingaros NA. The architect has no clothes. On the Commons, 2011.
• Moynihan D, Nielsen M. Why do people respond better to some places than others? New Statesman, 2017.
• Pedersen MC. Jan Gehl on why tall buildings aren’t necessarily bad for street life. Common Edge, 2016.
• Rofe Y. The meaning and usefulness of the “feeling map” as a tool in planning and urban design. Chapter 15 in Pontikis K & Rofe Y (Editors), “In pursuit of a living architecture: continuing Christopher Alexander’s quest for a humane and sustainable building culture.” Common Ground Publishing, pp. 295-312, 2016.
• Salingaros NA. Beauty, life, and the geometry of the environment. Chapter 2 in Horvath A & Cuffe JB (Editors), “Reclaiming Beauty,” Volume I, Ficino Press, Cork, Ireland, pp. 63-103, 2012. (Edited version of an essay from the Athens Dialogues E-Journal, Harvard University. Center for Hellenic Studies, 2010.)
• Sussman A, Chen K. The mental disorders that gave us modern architecture. Common Edge, 2017.
• Zander B. The transformative power of classical music. TED Talk, 2008.

Scientific publications

• Gepshtein S, Banks MS. Viewing geometry determines how vision and touch combine in size perception. Current Biology 13:483-488, 2003. [pdf]
• Gepshtein S, Lesmes LA, Albright TD. Sensory adaptation as optimal resource allocation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 110:4368-4373, 2013.
• Gepshtein S, Kubovy M. The emergence of visual objects in space-time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 97:8186-8191, 2000. [pdf]
• Lee J, Groh JM. Different stimuli, different spatial codes: a visual map and an auditory rate code for oculomotor space in the primate superior colliculus. PLOS One 9(1)e85017, 2014.
• Maier JX, Groh JM. Multisensory guidance of orienting behavior. Hearing Research 258:106-112, 2009. [pdf]
• Pages DS, Groh JM. Looking at the ventriloquist: Visual outcome of eye movements calibrates sound localization. PLOS One 8(8):e72562, 2013.
• Snider J, Lee D, Poizner H, Gepshtein A. Prospective optimization with limited resources. PLoS Computational Biology 11(9):e1004501, 2015.

Press

• Kendall B. Natural navigation. BBC World Service, 2014.
• Lighty R. NewSchool welcomes architects & neuroscientists in its innovative Neuroscience for Architecture summer intersession program. NewSchool of Architecture and Design, 2017.
• Medical Xpress. The visual system as economist: neural resource allocation in visual adaptation. Schepens Eye Research Institute | Harvard Medical School, 2013
• Sussman, A. Why brain architecture matters for built architecture. Metropolis, 2017.